Jean PaulAs a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.371Reading
Jean PaulLike a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and … ▶351HopeLife
Jean PaulTwo aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.374Life
Jean PaulWoman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.374Reading
Jean PaulThe words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by poster… ▶363Thought
Jean PaulWhenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.331Philosophy
Jean PaulEvery man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. ✨ Jean Paul (1866). Levana: or, The doctrine of education, p.44353LifeTime
Jean PaulMen, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. ✨ Jean Paul (1862). Titan: A Romance, p.156365Love
Jean PaulIn science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.343Thought
Jean PaulBeauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.344Politics
Jean PaulThere is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.334Sadness
Jean PaulSorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.323Sadness
Jean PaulA timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.378Time
Jean PaulLike the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.312Reflection
Jean PaulFancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present345HopeTimeTruth
Jean PaulThe conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.291Humor
Jean PaulGod is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.368Truth
Jean PaulThe guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.379LifeTime
Jean PaulThe gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equa… ▶357Politics
Jean PaulOnly deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm. ✨ Titan, Zykel 145 in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-45… ▶324Life
Jean PaulIf self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.346Hope
Jean PaulPassion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.281Love
Jean PaulWithout God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.314HopeHumanityReading
Jean PaulThe burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.314Truth
Jean PaulAs winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of th… ▶282Sadness
Jean PaulA loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold. ✨ Jean Paul (1862). Titan: A Romance, p.464337Love
Jean PaulSorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ✨ Hesperus, XIV in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehie… ▶316Sadness
Jean PaulHumanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.305Humanity
Jean PaulMan's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.283Death
Jean PaulThere are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.295Reading
